GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which comes with core speeds of 822 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should theoretically be a small bit superior to the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 19456 (18%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a lot (approximately 45%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16208 (45%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5504 (26%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.